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Season 1913

  • S1913E01 The Artist's Dream

    • June 7, 1913

    An artist draws a dog who comes to life and eats a plate of sausages.

  • S1913E02 Col. Heeza Liar's African Hunt

    • November 29, 1913

    Mistaking a tiger's tail for a snake, Colonel Heeza Liar puts himself in wrong with a big tiger, who gives him a very bad quarter of an hour, until the matchless courage and ingenuity of our hero overcomes him.

Season 1915

  • S1915E01 Diplodocus

    • January 2, 1915

    Bray's infamous rip-off of Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur. This features a dinosaur performing most of Gertie's tricks, but with less skillful animation, using cels on a static background.

  • S1915E02 Colonel Heeza Liar at the Bat

    • September 4, 1915

    Colonel Heeza Liar comes to the rescue of a baseball team and becomes the star pitcher and hitter.

Season 1916

  • S1916E01 The Police Dog on the Wire

    • January 27, 1916

    A female dog phones a ‘police dog’, while a cop named Piffles gets drunk.

  • S1916E02 Bobby Bumps and His Pointer Pup

    • February 24, 1916

    Bobby walks by a pet shop where there's a cute doggy in the window. It's $5, so he goes to steal a piggybank to buy it.

  • S1916E03 Bobby Bumps Gets a Substitute

    • March 30, 1916

    Restless young Bobby Bumps is forced by his dad to practice playing the piano. He astutely allows his pet dog to take over for him.

  • S1916E04 Bobby Bumps' Fly Swatter

    • June 20, 1916

    Flies are bothering Pa. Pa instructs Bobby to come inside and swat the flies away so Pa can sleep.

  • S1916E05 Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York

    • October 9, 1916

    With money bag in hand, Farmer Alfalfa is spotted by a crook who dispatches a fetching lady to shake him down.

  • S1916E06 Bobby Bumps Helps Out a Book Agent

    • December 14, 1916

    Bobby Bumps puts skates to his sleeping father’s shoes and then tipping off a humble book agent to ring the doorbell.

Season 1917

  • S1917E01 Bobby Bumps Adopts a Turtle

    • March 4, 1917

    Bobby finds a pet turtle in this short. Unfortunately for Bobby the turtle disappears.

  • S1917E02 Bobby Bumps, Surf Rider

    • August 27, 1917

    Bobby Bumps and Fido are having fun running in and out of the water at the beach. Bobby sees people surfboarding. He would like to do the same, and realizes he can use the ironing board! At least, it's not a problem until the maid finds her ironing board missing.

  • S1917E03 Bobby Bumps Starts for School

    • September 17, 1917

    Bobby Bumps is getting ready for school with the help from among others his faithful dog, Fido. Bobby is the bane of his teacher's existence since he often daydreams, today about playing baseball with Fido, rather than focus on his schoolwork.

  • S1917E04 Bobby Bumps, Chef

    • October 28, 1917

    Bobby wants to be a chef and his dog helps him by securing chicken and eggs. Not surprisingly, things do NOT work out well...and much of it is Fido's fault....as well as the cat's. Goldie the maid is NOT amused and soon gives chase.

  • S1917E05 Fido's Birthday Party

    • November 18, 1917

    It's Fido's birthday, so his master, Bobby Bumps, writes out invitations to a party to celebrate the event. Fido takes them and gives them to the dogs in the neighborhood. This short is missing.

  • S1917E06 Bobby Bumps' Tank

    • December 30, 1917

    Bobby and his dog build a home-made tank. In the process, they run over a lot of things and stop Grandpa from his greatest passion--getting drunk off moonshine. In the end, Grandpa gets his revenge.

  • S1917E07 Colonel Heeza Liar on the Jump

    • February 4, 1917

Season 1918

  • S1918E01 At the Dentist

    • February 25, 1918

    Bobby's dog, Fido, is having tooth problems. Oddly, he takes the dog to a human dentist...where there is a huge line of folks waiting to see the guy. How does Bobby manage to see the dentist without this huge wait?

  • S1918E02 Caught in the Jam

    • May 13, 1918

    Bobby Bumps, his dog Fido, and a shady mouse get into a jar of jam–and trouble.

  • S1918E03 Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on the Bum

    • December 4, 1918

    Bobby and his dog try to help out in a beanery (diner) kitchen.

  • S1918E04 Goodrich Dirt, Cow Puncher

    • December 4, 1918

Season 1919

  • S1919E01 Bobby Bumps' Last Smoke

    • January 26, 1919

    Bobby is smoking cigarettes, and begins hallucinating. In his dreamlike state, Bobby thinks he's in a Turkish harem.

  • S1919E02 Bobby Bumps' Pup Gets the Flea-enza

    • April 23, 1919

    Bobby's dog Fido is thought to have the Flu.

  • S1919E03 How Animated Cartoons Are Made

    • September 6, 1919

    Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

  • S1919E04 Their Master's Voice

    • September 9, 1919

  • S1919E05 The Tantalizing Fly

    • October 4, 1919

    A cartoonist drawing a clown is harassed by a fly. His efforts to swat the insect only spray ink over his drawing, so he borrows a fly-swatter from a co-worker. When the fly comes to rest on the clown, the cartoonist gives the paper a mighty whack, sending the clown head over teakettle,

  • S1919E06 Pigs in Clover

    • November 10, 1919

    Jerry on the Job has to deal with multiple trained guinea pigs.

  • S1919E07 How the Telephone Talks

    • April 27, 1919

    Animated and live-action footage show telephone components with illustrate how they are able to transport sound electronically to the public in the early in the 19th century.

Season 1920

  • S1920E01 All Aboard for the Moon

    • February 2, 1920

    An animated interpretation of a rocket voyage to the moon demonstrates the scientific principles at play in theoretical space travel (such as gravity).

  • S1920E02 Jerry on the Job: The Wrong Track

    • February 27, 1920

    Jerry's train encounters a cow on the railroad tracks and can't get it to budge.

  • S1920E03 The Best Mouse Loses

    • March 3, 1920

    Boxer Ignatz Mouse bets against himself in a match, then tries to lose the fight on purpose. But Ignatz's wife and Krazy Kat, both unaware of the bet, conspire to make sure Ignatz wins.

  • S1920E04 The Tale of a Wag

    • March 9, 1920

    When a persistent mosquito annoys Mr. Givney at the New Monia station, Jerry gets the idea to tie a hammer to his dog's tail to swat the pesky insect.

  • S1920E05 A Fitting Gift

    • May 7, 1920

    The Judge needs a present for his wife's birthday, so Harry suggests a new corset. They go to the shop, but he's so embarrassed to ask the saleslady he hides in a phone booth.Harry goes in, but finds a guy wearing one, and runs out.

  • S1920E06 How We Breathe

    • June 12, 1920

  • S1920E07 Jerry on the Job: The Bomb Idea

    • November 6, 1920

    A railroad porter and his boss get a premature Red Scare when a strange visitor seems to be carrying a Bolshevik bomb.

  • S1920E08 If We Lived on the Moon

    • September 1, 1920

    A Popular Science Monthly film demonstrating how life on the moon would be different than life on Earth.

  • S1920E09 Yes Dear

    • December 12, 1920

    Judge Rummy's wife won't let him out of the house, so he rigs a dummy up a player piano and put a parrot inside that will reply "Yes Dear" every time she says something to the Rummy dummy

Season 1921

  • S1921E01 Hunting an Fishing

    • August 21, 1921

  • S1921E02 The Point of View

    • December 31, 1921

    A rare educational Bray film about poor eyesight--including stock footage from Bray cartoons. A film previously unknown in Bray research until this lone 16mm print surfaced in 2014! Exact production date unknown.

Season 1922

  • S1922E01 The Mad Locomotive

    • June 4, 1922

    Mr. Givny informs Jerry that they are out of coal for the train. The passengers who appear behave amusingly and when the train itself takes on anthropomorphic life.

  • S1922E02 Fresh Fish

    • October 8, 1922
    • Educational Films Corporation of America

Season 1923

  • S1923E01 Chicken Dressing

    • January 28, 1923
    • Educational Films Corporation of America

  • S1923E02 Col. Heeza Liar, Detective

    • February 11, 1923

    Colonel Heeza Liar jumps off the drawing board and into the real world to track down a stolen rooster.

  • S1923E03 Colonel Heeza Liar's Forbidden Fruit

    • November 1, 1923

    Walter Lantz is playing "Yes We Have No Bananas" on his guitar, before a co-worker presents him with a banana that transmogrifies into Colonel Heeza Liar, who tells how he ended "the great banana famine in 1923."

Season 1924

  • S1924E01 Col. Heeza Liar's Knighthood

    • April 1, 1924

    Heeza Liar tells how he was a knight when he was a youngster and defeated a brigand.

  • S1924E02 The Pied Piper

    • December 1, 1924

    When a horde of cartoon mice overrun his studio, Walter Lantz -- in a beret, mustache and artist's robes -- orders Dinky Doodle to rid the place of them.

Season 1925

  • S1925E01 Little Red Riding Hood

    • January 4, 1925

    Bray Studio's version of Little Red Riding Hood. This short is missing.

  • S1925E02 Just Spooks

    • September 13, 1925

    Walter Lantz paints an invisible picture; he sleeps and is tormented by a mosquito; and he is tormented by a ghost.

  • S1925E03 The Hunt

    • November 1, 1925

    Dinkey goes hunting but mostly he just gets himself in trouble. By the end, he's about to get eaten by a bear when his two young animated friends come to his rescue.

Season 1926

  • S1926E01 Dinky Doodle Lost and Found

    • February 19, 1926

    The animator tries to lose Dinky Doodle and Weakheart in the countryside. But they're kidnapped and taken to the moon by a witch. They finally get back to earth to take their revenge against their creator.

  • S1926E02 Pete's Haunted House

    • October 5, 1926

    When Walter Lantz sees Pete the Pup reading a book of ghost stories, he plays some tricks on the dog to make him think that spooky things really are going on.

  • S1926E03 The Tail of the Monkey

    • December 29, 1926

    After an organ grinder's monkey grabs a little girl's lollipop with his tail, the musician explains why monkeys are so clever with their tails.

Season 1927

  • S1927E01 The Lunch Hound

    • April 8, 1927

    Walter Lantz, sitting at his drawing board, is hungry, and he wants to prepare a meal. He calls on Pete for help to find some food, but Pete is hiding out in the woods. Walter draws a cooked chicken to lure him out and succeeds, but the chicken comes to life and eludes Pete.

Season 1936

  • S1936E01 Teapot Town

    • July 26, 1936

    Created in conjunction with Lipton as a soft-sell for its products, Tea Pot Town seems largely inspired by the Sunshine Makers narrative. Tea Pot Town purported that drinking tea once per day added positivity to life and helped chase away negative thoughts.